Why is Nancy Garrido being charged for rape? I understand the kidnapping and false imprisonment.?

She herself grabbed the girl, and held her in that pigpen just like her husband. BUT.... she is not the reason Jaycee Dugard had those two kids. Why the rape charge? Does this seem weird to anyone else?Why is Nancy Garrido being charged for rape? I understand the kidnapping and false imprisonment.?
A rape doesn't have to result in a pregnancy. If she assisted... or participated... in sexually ';penetrating'; Jaycee... remember ';rape'; doesn't just mean a penis, but any instrument capable of being inserted into the vagina (or other orifice).. she is guilty of rape.Why is Nancy Garrido being charged for rape? I understand the kidnapping and false imprisonment.?
The law allows people who were accomplices to a crime to be charged with the crime itself. An accomplice is basically someone who knows or reasonably could know that a crime is being committed by someone, and who in some way enables the person who actually commits the act to do it.





Nancy Garrido certainly knew what her husband was doing to Jaycee Dugard and she helped make it possible. Therefore she can be charged with the crime.





In the same way, for example, a person who drives a getaway car in a drive-by shooting can be charged with murder even though they didn't pull the trigger.





The charges against Nancy Garrido aren't locked in, it's possible that the DA's office may drop some of the charges if she agrees to be their witness in the case against her husband. FWIW, I kind of doubt that Nancy Garrido will come to trial, I think that if her public defender is smart he's going to work on a diminished mental capacity defence and try to work out the best plea deal he can that puts her in a mental institution rather than a prison.
She allowed the rape to happen with prier knowledge that it would happen before the girl was kidnapped . She knew they would kidnap a girl he would rape her and she would have his child . Preplanned . That is why she is charged with rape .
Nancy Garrido allowed the crimes to happen. That is why she is being charged.
aiding and abetting, providing material support, etc.